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A Sales Leader’s Guide to Managing Millennials

The Pew Research Center defines millennials as the generation born after 1980 that came to early adulthood in the early 2000s. Reporters have a lot to say about millennials, who are stereotyped as entitled individualists who are slow to leave the nest but, like it or not, millennials are entering the workforce in large numbers. It is important that managers spend some time getting to know this unique generation if they want to work well with them, especially in a sales environment and managing salespeople. What Makes a Millennial? millennial was the first to grow up with computers in his/her
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Sales Management

Does Your Sales Team Need More Structure?

According to a survey conducted by the Harvard Business Review earlier this year, there are five things that set top-performing sales teams apart from average and low-performing sales teams. Of those five things, the two that are most actionable are that high performing sales teams tend to “employ a more structured sales process” and “hold their team members to a higher level of accountability.” As a manager of a sales team, a well-structured process can help you set and meet sales planning objectives more consistently, identify problems within your team, motivate your salespeople to achieve greater success and hold them
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Sales Management

Top 6 Sales Management Challenges and How to Overcome Them

As a sales manager, your leadership style is a major contributing factor to your team’s success. If you let your team down, you will likely see their results suffer. On the other hand, if you practice effective management and leadership skills, you can inspire your team and strengthen their performance. However, sales management can be challenging, especially if you are new to the role. Below are the top challenges faced by sales managers and how you can overcome them to improve sales productivity, become a stronger leader and get better results from your team: Top 6 Sales Management Challenges and
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How to Build and Manage a Successful Sales Team

Are you failing to get the results you want from your sales team? If so, it might be a good time to analyze your hiring and management process. With a few simple changes, you can start hiring and leading sales superstars who are capable of consistently growing revenue. That means no more wasted time or money, or frustration due to hiring and training the wrong people. How to Build and Manage a Successful Sales Team was last modified: October 22nd, 2024 by SalesDrive, LLC
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Sales Management

How to Reduce High Turnover in the Sales Department

Here Is Why Salespeople Leave and How It Can Cost You Whether high turnover has resulted from failure to use a sales aptitude test to help you hire wisely, troubles with the company culture or something else, it is a problem that requires your immediate attention. After all, the cost of high turnover in a sales department can be quite staggering – both for your company’s budget and the overall morale of your team. Thankfully, many of the common causes of high turnover rates can be avoided relatively easily. Here are the top reasons companies experience high turnover in the
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Does Your Employee Need Training or is She Ill-Suited to Sales?

It is always frustrating when a new sales hire does not perform as well as expected. Hunting for qualified candidates is a lot of work, so it is important that the employees you commit to hire and train can pull their weight. If you have a new salesperson that is not performing as well as you had hoped, take a close look at his or her process to determine whether his success rate is being negatively affected by mistakes in his sales method or by his personality. 5 Signs Your Employee Needs Training, But Is Not Necessarily Wrong for Sales:
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